Last month a Hydrex group changed the bow thruster of a 191-meter roro ship throughout the vessel’s drop inRotterdam Using among the business’s workboats, the diver/technicians executed the procedure on-site.
The group set in motion to the ship’s place on the workboat packed with all the required tools. After the group established a surveillance terminal, the scuba divers began the procedure with an in-depth examination of the bow thruster as well as passage. In the meanwhile, preliminary prep work were made in the bow thruster engine space for the elimination of the device to ensure that there would certainly be no access of water once it was obtained.
The scuba divers initial activity was to remove the outside thruster passage grids to supply accessibility for elimination of the old device. Next pad eyes were bonded inside the passage to lift the thruster device backwards and forwards.
The following action was to safeguard the transmission with lifting tools. The group after that separated the device from the engine space, eliminated it from the thruster passage as well as brought it to the surface area.
Hydrex executed the procedure in close interaction with the OEM entailed. They supplied a brand-new thruster device as well as prepared it for installment on-site.
Because the thruster was totally constructed as well as prepared, maybe mounted in its totality without the requirement to produce a completely dry setting in the passage as is needed when the blades are mounted individually. The diver/technicians decreased it right into the water as well as brought it right into the thruster passage. The group protected the device as well as linked it to the engine space.
The procedure finished with the elimination of the pad eyes as well as the reinstallation of the thruster passage grids.
By carrying out the procedure in Rotterdam on-site as well as undersea the Hydrex scuba divers made it feasible for the proprietor to maintain the vessel out of drydock. The group operated in changes all the time. They ended up the task within the offered period. This permitted the ship to cruise on time, which was an essential advantage for the proprietor.
Old bow thruster device decreased onto cradle for transportation. Image politeness Hydrex
